CHAPTER 49: CHAPTER 49: THE MORE FRIENDS, THE MORE PATHS

Beep beep beep!

Early in the morning, Sun Yan was awakened by the alarm clock on the bedside table.

He instantly opened his eyes and picked up his phone to check the time displayed on the screen. As expected, the time had finally returned to normal, and he was back to Monday again.

The experiences from last night felt like a dream, leaving Sun Yan with a sense of disbelief even now.

But fortunately, he could confirm that the advent of White Sunday posed no danger to him.

He just needed to continue collecting more special corpses, then wait for the next White Sunday to sell to the corpse collector and trade for more materials.

"Why are there so many unread messages, this group of people really love to chat."

Opening WeChat, Sun Yan immediately saw the 999+ notifications in the Folklore Association group chat he had joined.

He clicked in and saw several members of the Folklore Association discussing the daily information they had gathered.

[Li Fuen (firearm sales)]: Is anyone available for business? I have a job; a family member in a household has hanged themselves and needs an exorcism.

[Zhang Huatang (Hunan stir-fry丨glutinous rice delivery)]: This Friday, I have an exorcism gig, but the possessed situation is a bit complicated. Anyone free to collaborate? Fifty-fifty split.

[Xia Chunli (gold shop buying gold, honest business)]: Damn, the gold price went up again today. When will this S3 season start?

Sun Yan quickly scanned through the chat history, skimming through the content.

Just like Zhou Haidong said when he invited him to join, the Folklore Association truly is a platform where members share ’business’ with each other.

If you encounter business you can’t handle alone, you can invite other members for cooperation, just by sharing some of the pay as compensation for help.

Every member of the group is not only an exorcist but also has a legitimate sideline. The North American exorcism world is too exclusive. If you rely solely on exorcism for income, foreign exorcists might genuinely starve to death.

Sun Yan didn’t have much interest in taking on business or cooperating with others from the group, since the 30+ members aren’t limited to California, and are spread across America.

The location of some jobs is too far, requiring a trip across most of North America. The fuel cost alone would be exorbitant, making it financially unviable.

[Zhou Haidong (Folklore Association Vice President)]: Anyone knows the specifics of that attack incident in the neighboring Buren City? Heard several nurses in the hospital got bitten. @Jin Sanya (DM for info), you’re in Buren City, any insider news?

[Jin Sanya (DM for info)]: Heard a mentally ill person from somewhere attacked people on the street recently. The police sent him to a mental hospital, but he escaped and attacked several nurses in a hospital. This guy seems to carry an infectious disease; those bitten start fearing light, the sun, even experiencing hair loss and heightened emotions.

[Liang Wenbin (contact for routes, contact for smuggling)]: Damn, based on what you said, this person could highly be of the Blood Race. It seems Buren City might be dangerous. Folks living there should be extra careful.

"Blood Race?"

Sun Yan was a bit startled since Buren City is next to Saint Anna City. If the Blood Race truly appears there, Saint Anna City might also be affected. Looks like he has to be cautious to avoid getting implicated.

Setting down his phone, he took out a notebook from under the pillow. Sun Yan flipped through the pages to check today’s daily tasks.

If no one came to him for help or issued commissions, all Sun Yan could do were the daily tasks that refresh once a day.

However, the quality of the daily task rewards varies greatly. Sometimes the rewards are so lousy that he has no desire to even complete them,

and he ends up slacking off for the whole day, waiting for the next day’s refresh.

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Daily Task [Failed Product of the Bloodline]

Task Difficulty: ☆☆

Task Introduction: A special corpse is hidden in the abandoned factory on Belington #3 Street in Buren City. The owner of the corpse seems to be involved in an unusual secret.

Task Requirements: Bury the ’special corpse’ in your graveyard

Task Reward: Sharp Teeth Enhancement Potion Synthesis Diagram (Requires ’Main House Exploration 100%’ to use)

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"Buren City... it couldn’t be such a coincidence, right." Seeing the task introduction, Sun Yan couldn’t help but show a bitter smile.

What you fear just might happen; he was just thinking about being cautious of the suspected Blood Race appearing in Buren City.

Fortunately, the difficulty of this task is only two stars, so it shouldn’t be too dangerous.

It’s also Sun Yan’s first time seeing a reward like a potion synthesis diagram. Although he doesn’t know its specific effect, missing it would be a shame.

"Get up, time to go." Stretching, Sun Yan walked into the bathroom to start washing up.

...

Buren City is about 87 kilometers away from Gospel Town. After driving for an hour, Sun Yan arrived in the city.

Following the address, the Ford pickup stopped outside a factory that seemed abandoned for years.

The factory was surrounded by a more than two-meter-high fence iron wall, long tarnished and covered in plants after years of weathering.

Sun Yan circled the factory, finally finding a breach where he could bend down and crawl through.

"Who is so unfortunate that even in death, their body is hidden in such a place?"

Even in broad daylight, the abandoned factory exuded a still, deathly atmosphere. The walls of the factory were covered in various spray-painted patterns.

It was evident that people often snuck in for graffiti art.

Crack!

Grabbing the handle of the factory door and pulling hard, the rusted door, with its worn tracks, reluctantly opened just enough for Sun Yan to squeeze through.

Behind the door was impenetrable darkness, where the sunlight couldn’t penetrate far inside, resembling a gaping abyss waiting to swallow intruders.

’Celestial Eye’

A golden line flickered at Sun Yan’s brow, and the factory’s darkness instantly became bright as day to him, with no hindrance whatsoever.

Seeing through the dark is a basic ability of the Celestial Eye, a Divine Power of True Monarch of Pure Origin and Mysterious Dao, not just limited to its use as a Yin-Yang Eye.

"Such a large place, finding a corpse won’t be easy." Sun Yan took out the Ghost Torturing Stick and headed for the nearest room.

In any case, a thorough search is always the right move.

Once inside the room, Sun Yan didn’t notice the numerous stationary shadows that suddenly appeared in the sunlight streaming in from outside the factory, despite no one standing there.